Elektrishun
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Yeah, that's a lot of video.
The bucket trap would be interesting. It would let me know just how bad the situation is. The next day I could sell frozen mouse on a stick.
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Controlling the mice population in our backyard
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Yeah, that's a lot of video.
The bucket trap would be interesting. It would let me know just how bad the situation is. The next day I could sell frozen mouse on a stick.
TorontoBuilder
Sapientia et Doctrina Stabilitas
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I park my trailer at a provincial park for the summer. The bucket traps are very effective, and can catch a ton of them. Some fridays aren't fun emptying them though, especially if its been hot out. Don't ever have one inside, and box it completly in with rocks. Skunks will chew through them to get to the mice as well, so buy spares.
Doggggboy
Ultra Member
When we had the kennel we had mice.
Picture a 5800 square foot building with 50 to 90 bowls of dog food on the floor twice a day and heated floors and unlimited water and 24/7 indoor outdoor access.
The only thing that kept mice under control was the good old fashioned Victor snap traps baited with peanut butter tied to the wall with a string.
Set a trapline at night and catch some every night, more in the fall when the weather turns cold and they start seeking heat. The string stops the wannabe amputees from wandering off out of sight.
The windup traps were ok but only work well when baited with other rotting mice, not cool.
Sticky traps work okayish if you don't mind stomping on wiggling mice every morning or peeling a sticky trap with a mouse on it off a yellow lab's head.
Ultrasonic repellants are complete bullshit.
Cats work well but are a problem in a building housing 50 to 90 dogs.
Snap traps work best but require daily maintenance. The best solution is to deny access. When we closed the kennel I sealed up the dog doors and within a couple of weeks we had zero mice in the building
Picture a 5800 square foot building with 50 to 90 bowls of dog food on the floor twice a day and heated floors and unlimited water and 24/7 indoor outdoor access.
The only thing that kept mice under control was the good old fashioned Victor snap traps baited with peanut butter tied to the wall with a string.
Set a trapline at night and catch some every night, more in the fall when the weather turns cold and they start seeking heat. The string stops the wannabe amputees from wandering off out of sight.
The windup traps were ok but only work well when baited with other rotting mice, not cool.
Sticky traps work okayish if you don't mind stomping on wiggling mice every morning or peeling a sticky trap with a mouse on it off a yellow lab's head.
Ultrasonic repellants are complete bullshit.
Cats work well but are a problem in a building housing 50 to 90 dogs.
Snap traps work best but require daily maintenance. The best solution is to deny access. When we closed the kennel I sealed up the dog doors and within a couple of weeks we had zero mice in the building
@Elektrishun
The best bait I ever used for mice is peanut butter.
But even peanut butter can be improved with Tomcat Attractant Gel. I think I got it at CTire. Just a mouse turd of that stuff on Peanut Butter attracts them like crazy. But I use standard snap traps.
The best bait I ever used for mice is peanut butter.
But even peanut butter can be improved with Tomcat Attractant Gel. I think I got it at CTire. Just a mouse turd of that stuff on Peanut Butter attracts them like crazy. But I use standard snap traps.
Canadium
Ian
I've had mice seemingly lick the peanut butter completely off without triggering the trap. Cheese on the other hand is more solid and causes them to actually trigger the trap.
Only happened to me once cuz the trigger was too tight. If I am careful about making a hair trigger they end up dead.
140mower
Don
I have a little container of peanut butter that I keep just for traps. I leave the lid off of it and the older it gets the thicker it gets. Between the peanut butter and messing with the latch until looking at it funny sets it off, I find the peanut butter brings them in better but your trap has to be up to snuff. Sometimes I will trip it a few times trying to place it, one learns to keep the fingers out eventually..... 